I think I'm just going to save for a trip to Glasgow!!

I was watching my Alignment Golf Drills DVD and there it was staring at me the whole time, Yoda shows how to set up. Right foot pigeon toe the line, left foot just outside the ball.

I had it all along!!

set up for short game
 

It would be useful to get clarification for the set up for the chips and pitches demonstrated in the first alignment golf dvd.
It is clear that the feet are open to the target but what about the shoulders?
If the shoulders are open as well then is the plane line shifted left and the club face down the line?

Good question. Im thinking that the foot line is often given far too much significance in terms of aiming. Where as in reality its primary role is to retrict the hip motion. An open foot line would restrict the backward turn of the hips and free the forward motion. The shoulder frame being directly connected to the arms has far more impact upon aiming than do their distant component friends the hips or feet.

So to answer your question, in Basic Motion we typically address the ball in our Impact Fix Alignments given the extremely brief and low powered shot we are making..........feet, hips slightly open , weight left. There is room for personal preference here. But the open shoulders would be more indicative of a true "cross line" out to in, bent plane line type shot. A cut shot. The opposite would be true of the hook shot, a low runner, with a plane line and the feet and shoulders aligned to the right.

Add some variance in ball position: up for high floaters and back for low spinners for instance and you have the makings for a great short game.

Clubface slightly open for horizontal hinging, square to slightly closed for angle hinging, the longer the shot the more closed,
and square for vertical hinging.

Now Loren,

Would that be to the new inside arc of approach or to the target line? Don't want to confuse anyone..HeHeHe!

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